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That is not true. Non police are held to a reasonable man standard while police officers are held to a professional standard. What the average citizen can do would oft times put a cop in jail.
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Cops are held to a higher standard than citizens btw.
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That is not the case in New York. Police officers have significantly greater legal justification in using deadly physical force than a private person under most circumstances, not the least of which being no duty to retreat, and an expanded ability to used deadly force to make an arrest or prevent an escape. There is no "professional standard" or standard higher than reasonable in Article 35 of the NYS Penal Law, and I have not seen a mention of anything but "reasonable" being used in civil case law.